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Cameron Pickford
· February 14, 2020 2:46 PM
Governor Gretchen Whitmer has some explaining to do. And a decision to make.
This week, the Detroit Office of the Inspector General issued a scathing report that blistered the state’s top medical executive for abusing her power while director of the Detroit Health Department.
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Cameron Pickford
· December 13, 2019 12:03 PM
Turns out Michigan’s public school teachers are big fans of personal freedom, and they’re pretty good at exercising their constitutional rights, too.
That’s according to eye-popping new numbers from the Michigan Department of Education.
As Michigan this week commemorates the 7th anniversary of the passage of the state’s Right to Work law, labor numbers indicate tens of thousands of Michigan teachers jumped at the chance to rid themselves of the MEA.
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· November 22, 2019 10:00 AM
It’s time to decorate for the holidays, to gather with family and friends, to cook the turkey, watch some football, and complain about the weather.
In spite of the gray gloom outside and the usual unpredictable temperatures (and the very predictable Detroit Lions), we have a lot to be thankful for in Michigan:
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Cameron Pickford
· November 15, 2019 10:00 AM
We’re working hard to hold Governor Whitmer accountable for her broken promises, and it’s getting lots of attention.
Our billboard featuring the governor’s road funding veto was covered by WLNS, Fox2 and WXYZ, with stories airing ELEVEN TIMES on local TV over the weekend. In addition to television audiences, hundreds of thousands of motorists have seen the billboards, and many more have seen news articles online at the Detroit News, Fox47, WDIV and others, and through our social media channels.
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Cameron Pickford
· November 08, 2019 2:25 PM
The Michigan Freedom Fund today launched a major new public awareness campaign, unveiling billboards on major Michigan highways reminding Governor Gretchen Whitmer of her campaign promise to “fix the damn roads.”
Instead of fixing the roads, Whitmer just weeks ago took her veto pen to huge new funding items in the state budget, slashing $375 million in funding earmarked to repair the state’s crumbling roads and bridges, including 4 bridges she personally toured, claiming their condition ‘keeps me up at night’ and are ‘a catastrophe in the making.’
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Cameron Pickford
· November 01, 2019 9:58 AM
Last week, three of Democratic Mayor Mike Duggan’s top lieutenants, including Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s husband Ryan Friedrichs, were blistered by the city’s Inspector General for destroying public records.
The Democratic administration’s rush to the virtual shredder came after reporters with the Detroit Free Press began asking questions about the Mayor’s use of city resources to benefit a woman with whom he is having an illicit affair. Allegedly.
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Cameron Pickford
· October 25, 2019 11:44 AM
Is Governor Gretchen Whitmer worried about whistleblowers?
That’s the only conclusion one can draw after the Governor quietly and without fanfare vetoed legal protections for government whistleblowers not once, not twice, but 13 times in recent bills.
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Cameron Pickford
· October 18, 2019 12:30 PM
Unfortunately, some Senate Republicans have reignited their push for the foolish corporate welfare scheme known as “Good Jobs for Michigan.” And while the legislators pushing for this scheme may have good intentions, there’s nothing “good” about it for Michigan taxpayers.
That’s why the Michigan Freedom Fund, other good-government groups and lawmakers from both political parties attended the Senate Economic and Small Business Development Committee to defend workers and taxpayers by testifying against SB 492 and asking tough questions of its supporters.
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Cameron Pickford
· October 11, 2019 10:34 AM
It was a year ago Saturday, on October 12, 2018 in the heat of the general election campaign when then-candidate Gretchen Whitmer uttered perhaps the biggest whopper of the cycle.
Standing on a debate stage and accused by her opponent of planning to raise Michigan motorists’ gas taxes by as much as 20-cents per gallon, Whitmer condescended and shot back.
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· October 04, 2019 12:26 PM
This is a bombshell that’s gone almost entirely unreported in all the coverage spilling out of Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s use of the veto pen to eliminate $13 million for county sheriffs to patrol local roads, strip $35 million from public charter schools serving minority students and low-income families, and perhaps most ridiculously, reduce road funding by $375 million after spending two years grandstanding about “Fixing the Damn Roads”. Apparently, what she really meant was “Raise the Damn Taxes”!
Buried among the Governor’s 147 line-item vetoes in the state budget was a shocking and appalling move to greatly reduce government transparency and threaten whistleblowers in state Government.
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